Romans 10:1
Brothers, truly my heart's desire and my supplication to God for Israel is for salvation.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
In Context
2For I testify to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Cross References
Exodus 32:13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swore by thine own self, and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven. And all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they
1 Samuel 15:11I regret that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. And Samuel was angry, and he cried out to LORD all night.
Jeremiah 17:16As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee, nor have I desired the woeful day. Thou know. That which came out of my lips was before thy face.
Luke 13:34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather thy children together as a hen does her brood under her wings, and ye would not.
Romans 9:1I say the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience testifying to me in the Holy Spirit,
Matthew Henry on Romans 10:1
The dissolving of the peculiar church-state of the Jews, and the rejection of that polity by the repealing of their ceremonial law, the vacating of all the institutions of it, the abolishing of their priesthood, the burning of their temple, and the taking away of their place and nation, and in their room the substituting and erecting of a catholic church-state among the Gentile nations, though to us, now that these things have long since been done and completed, they may seem no great matter, yet to those who… Read the whole commentary →